The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-01


LARRY rONovAN. the Jumper, was pre-
vented by the police from jumping of the
Clifton (Eng.) suspension bridge Un the
21st.
LORD HARRINGTON, the British Liberal
Unionist, is opposed to limiting the Crimes
act to three years
QUEEN VIcTORIA's jubilee day, June 81,
passed off in London without any remarka-
BILE incident. The scene at Westminster
Abbey and the procession through the
streets were very brilliant.
F. W. KIRKLAND, editor Of the Winnipeg
Siftings, a weekly devoted to society news,
was arrested recently at the instance of
Hugh Macdonald, son Of Sir John A. Mac
donald, Premier of Canada, on the charge OF
criminally libehng his wife.
Or the persons charged with being i'm
plicated in the murder Cf Colonel Soudekin,
chief of the Russian police, who was assas-
sinated in 1888 seven have been sentenced
to death and fourteen to Siberia.
RUAoRs were recently current that King
Milan, of Servia, was about to abdicate.
STEPHEN PEERE, a shoemaker residing on
the Canadian side of the Niagara river,
crossed the river at the suspension Bridge
recently, walking upon a five-eighths inch
wire cable.
TIE crops of Asia Minor are in very bad
condition, and a panic IS threatened. The
/ Sultan will take steps to give relief.
/ 1HE RUSSIAN ana r EGuCu GlLlDdSSdQOtS 10
| Turkey have addressed Threatening note
to the Sultan against the Egyptian conven-
tion.
AMONG the jubilee presents received by
/ Queen Victoria was one of e15OO0 for a
/ monument, subscribed by 3,0000 900 women.
| Her Majesty accepted this and graclously
| thanked the donors.
| ADvICEs from Vancouver, b. c., are that
| the British corvette Conquest Will start
for Honolulu, having received secret orders
/ from the Foreign Office in London
| THE British brigantine Aldwyth is re-
1 ported missing. She had previously been
in collision with a steamer off Maryland.
By means of a counterfeit ticket the
Royal Havana Lottery was recently beaten
out Of $S5, 600.
THE elections in Bavaria have not mate
rally changed the status of parties.
THE British Cabinet proposes to prorOguo
Parliament about August 10.
! KING OTTO of Bavaria has been officially
declared insane.
| FURTHER reports of political conspiracies
| were prevalent in Bulgaria on the 23d
A FIREMAN and girl were killed and
much havoc created by an explosion at an
! extensive chemical works IN Manchester,
Eng, recently.
FRANK HUGH O'DoNNELL, formerly mem
Der OF Parliament for DungarvOn and ex-
| ce-president of the Home Rule Confedera-
tion, has brought suit against the London
| Times for libel
BY the wrecking Of a strain on the Hawkes.
bury railway in New South Wales, on the
23d, seven persons were killed and forty
| others injured. The account was caused by
the failure of the brakes to work while the
train was going down an incline.
THE Afghan situation has improved, ac-
| cording to Simla reports, the road between
| Cabul and Candahar has been reOpened,
the rebels are dispirited, and there is every
| prospect that the rebellion viii soon col
| lapse.
THE Paris Journal des De5Gts denies that
France and Russia have threatened Turkey
with war if the Sultan signs the Egyptian
| convention.
IN consequence Of the action of the mayor
of Cork in hoisting black flag on the occa-
sion of the jubilee, and because of his hav-
ing shown favor to Nationalists, Plunkett,
the divisional magistrate, has superseded
him and ordered that only the resident
paid magistrate try prisoners.
AT Valparaiso, Chilli, to May /. $50 cases
of cholera had occurred. OF this number
62S died. In Quillote 1859 cases had oc
Cured and 1,002 deaths.
MGRs. PERsIco and Gualdi have left Rome
for Ireland on the mission entrusted them
by the Pope. They are instructed to make
personal observations and report on the
political and social position of the Irish
people.
1T is officially denied in the City of Mex
leo that cabinet crisis exists or is to be
feared.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) during
the seven days ended June % numbered fol
the United States III; for Canada, %; total
1917, as compared with 21S the previous weeH
and 1852 the spending week of last year
JOSEPH BROTHERS, jewelers. of BIrming
ham and Leeds, England, and Canada, have
failed with $500, 600 liabilities and small as
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